Meanwhile US crude oil production has reached a 100-year high, reports The Times, the highest since records began in 1900, with growth rates also breaking records.Reuters reports doubts about North Dakota’s oil train safety checks.

Meanwhile, The Independent reports that Britain’s leading private university – the University of Buckingham – has appointed an anti-windfarm campaigner to set up an energy institute. Academics warn it is becoming a mouthpiece for the fossil fuel industry.

And the Guardian reports February’s letter from UK’s former climate change envoy to Shell, saying that the company and its oil and gas peers are “narcissistic, paranoid and psychopathic” in their attempts to address concerns over climate change.

EurActiv have a published comments from the former chief of the UK Environment Agency, who says that fossil fuels must stay in the ground – but that was must “be realistic”.